

Editing 101: The Musicality of Words
I truly love how words sound. I love the word serendipity, which makes me think of sudden joy. And the word ephemeral makes me momentarily all happy and warm. Cozy sounds just . . . well . . . cozy, and spelunking sounds like it will include dripping water in mysterious caves. There are words, however, that may sound fine but may not mean what you think they mean. Penultimate is not quite as final as it sounds. Inflammable actually means the same thing as flammable. And, gett


Proofreading 101: When Your Text Gets Graphic(s)
I know I've mentioned many times that Spellcheck should be considered a "frenemy" because it doesn't always catch obvious errors. Unfortunately, once you get really used to having Spellcheck in all of your documents, you tend to forget that it doesn't check the spelling of graphics. In other words, if you've got an artist creating images for you, those images won't be checked by the program when they're inserted into your work. (Which probably seems pretty obvious.) What may